Engineering student Anson Yu teamed up with her Systems Design Engineering classmates Rishi Kothari, Shivam Sharma, and Chloe Nguyen, and Hudhayfa Nazoordeen from the Faculty of Mathematics and Emannuel Nera and Santiago Del Solar from Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, to brainstorm some ideas. They also enlisted support from their good friend Ben James, an engineer from the University of Cambridge visiting from the U.K. They had a lot of great ideas but there was one that charmed them all — building the legendary Grumobile from Despicable Me.
“We’re big proponents of prank culture and doing whimsical things that make people do a double take”, Yu says “When we were testing and driving the Grumobile around, it was like wearing a force field that made people smile.”
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